1890 - The Weather Bureau was established by an act of Congress.
1896 - Rural free postal delivery started.
1908 - The Model T Ford was introduced.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 1:
Jimmy Carter - U.S. president, Georgia governor, philanthropist, writer
Julie Andrews - Actress, singer
Bonnie Parker - Bank robber, Bonnie and Clyde
Mary McFadden - Fashion designer
Marc Edmund Jones - Astrologer
Vladimir Horowitz - Pianist
%October 2
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1866 - The tin can with a key opener was patented.
1963 - Artificial leather shoe upper was introduced to the press.
1975 - The 70-story Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia, the tallest building in the South, was completed.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 2:
Spankie McFarland - Child actor, Li'l Rascals
Groucho Marx - Vaudeville entertainer, comic, actor, TV host
Annie Leibovitz - Celebrity photographer
Donna Karan - Fashion designer
Rex Reed - Critic, TV reviewer, syndicated columnist
Don McLean - Singer, songwriter
%October 3
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1899 - Motor driven vacuum cleaner was patented.
1962 - Walter Schirra, the third American in orbit, completed 5 ╛ orbits aboard the Mercury Capsule Sigma 7 before splashing down near Midway Island in the Pacific.
1974 - Frank Robinson became the first black manager in major league baseball.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 3:
Emily Post - Etiquette expert
Chubby Checker - Singer, started "Twist" craze
Jack LaLanne - TV fitness instructor, health club entrepreneur
Gore Vidal - Playwright, critic, novelist
Eddie Cochran - Singer
Gertrude Berg - Actress
%October 4
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1881 - The first automatic piano player was patented.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held.
1940 - The quetzal bird was first imported.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 4:
Susan Sarandon - Actress
Charlton Heston - Actor
Pancho Villa - Mexican bandit
Steve Swallow - Jazz bassist, composer
Elisa Bialk - Children's author
Buster Keaton - Silent film actor, director, stuntman
%October 5
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1921 - The World Series had its first radio coverage.
1953 - The New York Yankees became the first baseball team to win five consecutive World Series.
1966 - The conviction of Jack Ruby for the 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald was reversed by the Texas Court of Appeals on the ground of improperly submitted evidence.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 5:
Barry Switzer - Football coach
Mario Lemieux - Hockey center
Steve Miller - Singer, songwriter
Richard Gordon - Astronaut
Michael Andretti - Auto racer
Bob Geldof - Musician, actor, Live Aid benefit organizer
%October 6
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1853 - The American Pharmaceutical Association was founded in Philadelphia.
1857 - The American Chess Association was organized.
1876 - The American Library Association was established in Philadelphia.
1927 - The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released as the first talking motion picture.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 6:
Helen Wills Moody - Tennis champion
Carole Lombard - Actress
Edgar Young - Travel writer
Louis Philippe - French king
Janet Gaynor - Actress
George Westinghouse - Engineer, manufacturer, Westinghouse Corporation founder
%October 7
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1816 - The first double-decked steamboat arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1857 - The first folding machine to fold book and newspaper sheets was patented by Cyrus Chambers, Jr.
1931 - The first infrared photograph was taken.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 7:
June Allyson - Actress
Alfred Drake - British musical comedy star
Desmond Tutu - Nobel Peace Prize-winning South African archbishop, anti-apartheid activist
Yo Yo Ma - Cellist
Joe Jones - Jazz drummer
Helen MacInness - Novelist
%October 8
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1929 - The automatic pilot was tested.
1974 - President Ford proposed a program to control inflation, called WIN (Whip Inflation Now), calling for voluntary energy conservation measures to help combat spiraling oil prices.
1988 - The longest losing streak (44 games over five years) in major college football ended when Columbia defeated Princeton, 16-13.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 8:
Jesse Jackson - African-American political leader, Baptist clergyman, orator
Sigourney Weaver - Actress
Chevy Chase - Comic TV, film actor
Bill Elliot - Auto racer
Pepper Adams - Baritone saxophonist
Rona Barrett - Hollywood gossip columnist
%October 9
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1877 - The American Humane Association was organized.
1888 - The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1915 - Gil Anderson set a new auto speed record of 102.6 mph.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 9:
John Lennon - Singer, songwriter, The Beatles
Jill Conway - Historian, writer
Jackson Browne - Singer, songwriter
Irmgaard Seefried - Austrian soprano
William Edward Bok - Ladies Home Journal editor-in-chief
Sean Lennon - John Lennon and Yoko Ono's son
%October 10
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1845 - The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Maryland.
1959 -The start of the first passenger service circling the world was declared by Pan American World Airways.
1978 - The Susan B. Anthony coin was authorized.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 10:
Helen Hayes - Actress
Oom Paul Kruger - South African statesman, namesake of Krugerrand gold piece
Harold Pinter - British playwright
Albert Skira - Art book publisher
Johnny Green - Songwriter
Junior Mance - Jazz pianist
%October 11
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1910 - Teddy Roosevelt became the first president to fly.
1950 - A license to begin color television broadcasting was issued to the Columbia Broadcasting System.
1984 - Dr. Kathryn Sullivan became the first U.S. woman astronaut to walk in space.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 11:
Jerome Robbins - Choreographer, dance company founder, stage director
Charles Revson - Cosmetic merchant, Revlon founder
Darryl Hall - Singer, songwriter
Joseph Alsop, Jr. - Syndicated columnist
Robert P. Gale - Bone marrow, transplant surgeon
Ron Leibman - Actor
%October 12
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1792 - A monument to Columbus was dedicated.
1965 - The Sealab 2 U.S. Navy research program was completed in a series of 15-day stays 205 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
1979 - Allan Cormack of Tufts University and Geoffrey Hounsfield of Great Britain were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their development of the CAT scan, an advanced type of
x-ray equipment.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 12:
Luciano Pavarotti - Italian tenor
Tony Kubeck - Baseball infielder-outfielder, TV commentator
Susan Anton - Model, actress
Bill Steinkraus - Equestrian
Sam Moore - Soul singer, "Sam and Dave"
Albert Paul Blaustein - Law professor
%October 13
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1860 - The first aerial photograph was taken.
1939 - For the first time, a woman was issued an airplane instructor's license.
1943 - Italy declared war on Germany.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 13:
Margaret Thatcher - British prime minister
Paul Simon - Singer, guitarist, songwriter
Nancy Kerrigan - Figure skater
Jerry Rice - Football wide receiver
Demond Wilson - Actor
Eddie Matthews - Baseball third baseman
%October 14
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1922 - The first mechanical switchboard was established in the New York City telephone system.
1928 - The first television wedding took place.
1968 - The first outer-space live telecast of "Apollo VII" took place.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 14:
John Wooden - Basketball coach
Ralph Lauren - Clothing designer
Dwight David Eisenhower - U.S. president
Lillian Gish - Silent film actress
Roger Moore - Actor
Dorothy Wright Liebes - Textile designer, "mother of modern weaving"
%October 15
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1878 - Edison Electric Light Company, the first electric light company, was formed.
1881 - The first American fishing journal, "American Angler", was published in Philadelphia.
1966 - The United States Transportation Department was authorized.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 15:
Lee Iacocca - Ford, Chrysler chairman
Jim Palmer - Baseball pitcher
Sarah Ferguson - Duchess of York
Mario Puzo - Writer
Penny Marshall - Actress, director
Evangelista Torricelli - Italian mathematician, barometer inventor
%October 16
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1829 - The Tremont Hotel in Boston, the first luxurious hotel in the New World, opened.
1916 - The first birth control clinic opened.
1957 - The first American objects launched into space were two aluminum pellets lofted by the U.S. Air Force.
1973 - Maynard Jackson, the first black mayor of a major southern city, was elected to office in Atlanta, Georgia.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 16:
Angela Lansbury - Actress
William O. Douglas - Supreme Court justice
Suzanne Somers - Actress
Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri - Italian violin maker
Tim McCarver - Baseball catcher, sportscaster
Dave DeBusschere - Basketball forward, youngest NBA coach
%October 17
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1829 - The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal was formally opened.
1943 - Chicago's first subway was formally opened.
1979 - President Carter signed a bill creating the Department of Education, the 13th Cabinet-level agency.
1989 - The San Francisco Bay area was struck by an earthquake, just minutes before the third game of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics started.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 17:
Evel Knievel - Motorcycle daredevil
Rita Hayworth - Actress
Jimmy Breslin - Syndicated journalist, writer
Doris Humphrey - Choreographer, dancer, writer
Jimmy Seals - Singer, songwriter
Bob Seagren - Olympic gold medal-winning pole vaulter
%October 18
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1932 - Thomas Edison died at the age of 84 at his West Orange, New Jersey, home.
1969 - A new football field goal record for either amateur or pro football was set by Chester Marcol of Hillsdale College in Michigan, when he kicked a 62-yard field goal.
1977 - Reggie Jackson became the first batter to hit three consecutive homeruns in one World Series game.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 18:
Martina Navratilova - Tennis champion
Chuck Berry - Rock & roll pioneer, singer, songwriter, guitarist
George C. Scott - Actor
Winton Marsalis - Trumpeter, bandleader, composer
Pierre Elliott Trudeau - Canadian prime minister
Anita O'Day - Jazz singer
%October 19
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1968 - Mrs. John F. Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis, in a private ceremony on his island of Skorpios.
1967 - Mariner 5 passed within 2480 miles of the planet Venus and sent back data indicating that the planet had no magnetic field and that its surface was unsuitable for humans to inhabit.
1971 - "Look" magazine stopped publication.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 19:
Evander Holyfield - World heavyweight boxing champion
Jack Anderson - Syndicated newspaper columnist
Peter Max - Artist, designer
John Lithgow - Actor
Dave Gerard - "Kingston Trio" member
Emil Gilels - Russian pianist
%October 20
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1817 - The first showboat left Nashville, Tennessee.
1960 - The first fully mechanized post office opened.
1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, died at the age of 90, and was buried at West Branch, Iowa, his birthplace.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 20:
Bela Lugosi - Actor
Mickey Mantle - Baseball center fielder
Mario Buatta - Interior designer
Frances Kellor - Social investigator, lawyer, reformer
Frederic Dannay - Co-author of Ellery Queen mystery novels
Art Buchwald - Syndicated humorist
%October 21
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1868 - A severe earthquake rocked San Francisco causing approx. $3,000,000 property damage.
1918 - A new typewriting speed record was established by Margaret Owen in New York City, typing 170 words a minute with no errors.
1972 - Kansas City International Airport was dedicated in Missouri, with parking lots located inside its three doughnut-shaped terminals enabling passengers to park within 400 feet of the planes.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 21:
Carrie Fisher - Actress, writer
Whitey Ford - Baseball pitcher
Alfred Nobel - Swedish chemist, engineer, dynamite inventor
Dizze Gillespie - Trumpeter, composer, bandleader
Simon Gray - British playwright
Ursula LeGuin - Writer
%October 22
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1836 - Sam Houston was sworn in as President of the Republic of Texas.
1885 - The first state college for women opened.
1976 - The World Football League was disbanded due to declining attendance and lack of a national television contract, twelve weeks into its second season.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 22:
Brian Boitano - Olympic gold medal-winning figure skating champion
Catherine Deneuve - Actress, model
George W. Beadle - U.S. Nobel Prize-winning genetic biochemist
Annette Funicello - Actress
Hollis Caswell - Education professor, advisor to World Book Encyclopedia
William Hanley - Playwright
%October 23
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1884 - The first World Series began.
1935 - The PGA golf tournament was won by Johnny Revolta.
1947 - It was announced that C.F. Cori and G.T. Cori became the first husband and wife in the United States to receive a joint Nobel Prize.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 23:
Johnny Carson - TV host, Tonite show
Clarence W. Lillehei - Surgeon, open heart surgery pioneer
Gertrude Ederle - Triple gold medal-winning swimmer, first woman to swim English Channel
1980 - Beverly Sills gave her final performance in a New York City Opera production of Die Fledermaus, singing the role of Rosalinda.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 27:
Peter Martins - American Ballet founder, director, choreographer, dancer
Nanette Fabray - Comic TV, film actress
Theodore Roosevelt - U.S. president
Sylvia Plath - Poetess, writer
Ralph Kiner - Baseball outfielder
Robert Younger - Sculptor
%October 28
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1886 - The Statue of Liberty was unveiled and dedicated by President Cleveland.
1919 - The national prohibition law was enacted.
1972 - A bill establishing the Consumer Product Safety Commission was signed by President Nixon.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 28:
Isaac Merritt Singer - Sewing machine developer, manufacturer
Julia Roberts - Actress
Bruce Jenner - Olympic decathlon gold medalist, TV sports commentator
Charlie Daniels - Singer, songwriter
Edith Head - Hollywood costumier
Sir Richard Doll - British cancer researcher, established lung cancer-smoking link
%October 29
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1833 - The fraternity house chapter, Kappa Alpha Society, was founded in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
1971 - Surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania reported the first successful use of electricity to repair a bone fracture.
1974 - President Ford signed a bill forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 29:
Richard Dreyfuss - Actor, director, producer
Jean Giradoux - French playwright
Melba Moore - Singer
Edmund Halley - British astronomer, comet discoverer
Fanny Brice - Vaudeville comedienne, actress
Kate Jackson - Actress
%October 30
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1768 - The first Methodist church in America, Wesley Chapel, was dedicated.
1799 - The first Naval chaplain was commissioned.
1938 - Orson Welles staged his radio play "War of the Worlds", based on the novel by H.G. Wells.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 30:
Grace Slick - Singer, songwriter
Charles Atlas - Body builder
Henry Winkler - Actor, producer
Louis Malle - French film director
Christopher Columbus - Italian-Spanish navigator, traditionally credited with discovering America
Diego Maradonna - Argentinian soccer star
%October 31
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1864 - Nevada was admitted to the Union as the 36th state.
1868 - Mail carriers' uniforms were approved.
1956 - The first naval expedition to the South Pole landed.
OTHERS BORN ON OCTOBER 31:
Dan Rather - TV journalist, CBS anchor
Michael Landon - Actor, producer, director, writer
Marian Chace - Founded dance therapy as a profession
Dale Evans - Singer, actress, married to Roy Rogers
Helmut Newton - Photographer
Brooker Ervin - Jazz tenor, saxophonist
%November 1
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1848 - The first medical school for women opened.
1913 - The first Army-Notre Dame football game was played.
1957 - The world's longest suspension bridge, the Mackinac Straits Bridge, was opened for traffic.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 1:
Fernando Valenzuela - Baseball pitcher
"Sweet" Lou Donaldson - Jazz alto saxophonist
Umberto Agnelli - Italian industrialist, Fiat chairman
Eugen Jochum - German conductor
Al Arbour - Hockey coach
Marcel Ophuls - French film director
%November 2
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1920 - Women vote in their first Presidential election.
1938 - The 1939 model automobiles are introduced.
1950 - CBS begins broadcasting TV shows in 'living' color.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis is defused; missiles in Cuba are dismantled.
1983 - President Reagan signs legislation to establish a national holiday celebrating the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, life, and achievements.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 2:
Willie McGee - Baseball outfielder
Stefanie Powers - Actress
Burt Lancaster - Actor
Marie Antoinette - Queen of France
Daniel Boone - Pioneer scout
Jim Bakken - Football kicker
%November 3
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1881 - The first inland United States Coast Guard station opened in Louisville, Kentucky.
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted to the Union simultaneously.
1936 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was reelected president.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 3:
Larry Holmes - World heavyweight boxing champion
Roseanne Barr - Comedienne, actress
Michael Dukakis - Democratic presidential nominee
Dennis Miller - Comedian
Charles Bronson - Actor
Bob Feller - Baseball pitcher
%November 4
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1924 - Calvin Coolidge was elected president.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Adlai Stevenson.
1980 - Ronald Reagan was elected president, defeating Jimmy Carter.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 4:
Walter Cronkite - Journalist, CBS news anchor
Art Carney - Actor
John Sloan Dickey - Educator, lawyer
Pauline Trigere - Fashion designer
Kate Reid - Actress
Will Rogers - Humorist, actor
%November 5
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1853 - The American Society of Civil Engineers was established in New York City.
1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was reelected president.
1968 - Richard M. Nixon was elected president defeating Hubert H. Humphrey.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 5:
Vivien Leigh - Actress
Bill Walton - Basketball center
Roy Rogers - Actor, singer, rodeo star
Ike Turner - Entertainer, singer
Arthur Liman - Trial lawyer
Raymond Loewy - French-born industrialist, interior designer
%November 6
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
1869 - The first intercollegiate football game was played.
1923 - A patent for the first electric shaver was issued to Col. Jacob Schick.
1984 - Ronald Reagan was reelected president in the greatest Republican landslide in history, defeating Walter Mondale.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 6:
John Philip Sousa - March composer, bandmaster
Adolph Sax - Saxophone inventor
Sally Field - Actress
Walter Johnson - Baseball pitcher
James Ramon Jones - Novelist
Maria Schriver - TV journalist
%November 7
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1874 - The first cartoon showing an elephant to symbolize the Republican Party appeared.
1967 - "Surveyor 6" launched, the first satellite to launch from another heavenly body.
1972 - Richard Nixon was reelected president, defeating George McGovern.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 7:
Billy Graham - Evangelist
Al Hirt - Jazz trumpeter, bandleader
Johnny Rivers - Singer, songwriter, guitarist
Dean Jagger - Actor
Herman Mankiewicz - Screenwriter
Marie Curie - Discovered radium and polonium
%November 8
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1926 - The first ferryboat built exclusively for motor vehicle transportation went in service.
1960 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected president, defeating Richard Nixon.
1970 - Tom Dempsey of the New Orleans Saints set a new football field goal record of 63 yards.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 8:
Margaret Mitchell - Novelist
Bonnie Raitt - Singer, songwriter
Morley Safer - TV journalist
Margaret R. Seddon - Astronaut
Angel Cordero, Jr. - Jockey
Micol Fontana - Fashion designer
%November 9
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1821 - The first pharmacy college, the Philadelphia College of Apothecaries, opened.
1967 - The unmanned Apollo 9 space vehicle completed an 8-hour, 37-minute test orbit of Earth.
1984 - The first world heavyweight boxing match under the patronage of the International Boxing Federation was won by Larry Holmes, in a 12th round knock-out of James "Bonecrusher" Smith, in a bout in Las Vegas, Nevada.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 9:
Carl Sagan - Astronomer, biologist
Tommy Dorsey - Trombonist, bandleader
Sargent Shriver - Peace Corps head
Tom Weiskopf - Golf champion
Ed Wynn - Comedian, actor
Lou Ferrigno - Body builder, actor
%November 10
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1775 - The U.S. Marine Corps was established.
1914 - The first bank in a foreign country was established in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1951 - The first transcontinental direct dial telephone service was begun when Englewood, New Jersey, mayor Leslie Denning called Alameda, California, mayor Frank Osborn.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 10:
Richard Burton - Actor
John Northrup - Aeronautical engineer, designer
Vachel Lindsay - Poet
John P. Marquand - Pulitzer Prize-winning detective-story writer, novelist
Francois Couperin - French composer
Ennio Morricone - Italian film composer
%November 11
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1868 - The first indoor amateur track and field meet was held.
1904 - Theodore Roosevelt was elected president.
1935 - The first photograph showing the lateral curvature of the horizon was taken in Rapid City, South Dakota.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 11:
George Patton - WWII general
Demi Moore - Actress
Abigail Adams - First Lady
Jonathan Winters - Comedian, actor
Howard Fast - Writer
Rene Clair - French filmmaker
%November 12
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1892 - William Heffelfinger became the first professional football player when he was paid $25 for expenses and a cash bonus of $500.
1966 - The first photograph of an eclipse of the sun taken from the atmosphere.
1975 - William O. Douglas announced his retirement from the Supreme Court after 36 years of service, the longest tenure of any Supreme Court justice in history.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 12:
Nadia Comaneci - Romanian gymnast, first to score perfect 10 in Olympics
Harry A. Blackman - U.S. Supreme Court justice
Booker T. Jones - Singer, songwriter
Al Michaels - Sports commentator
Robert Hayes - Social activist, homeless advocate
Kim Hunter - Actress
%November 13
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1927 - The Holland Tunnel, the first underwater motor vehicle tunnel in the U.S., was opened to commercial traffic, linking Manhattan with New Jersey.
1973 - Congress approved plans for a trans-Alaska oil pipeline, designed to supply 2,000,000 barrels of oil a day.
1977 - The final installment of LiÆl Abner, the comic strip created by Al Capp in 1934, marked CappÆs retirement.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 13:
Robert Louis Stevenson - Poet, novelist
Garry Marshall - Producer, director
Whoopi Goldberg - Comedienne, actress
Jean Rook - British columnist
Louis D. Brandeis - U.S. Supreme Court justice
Hampton Hawes - Jazz pianist
%November 14
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1666 - The first successful blood transfusion was performed on two dogs in England.
1732 - The first librarian was hired in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1982 - The space shuttle Columbia completed its second mission, the second flight ever of a reusable spacecraft.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 14:
Claude Monet - French impressionist painter
Prince Charles - Prince of Wales, heir to British throne
Barbara Hutton - Woolworth heiress
Joseph McCarthy - U.S. senator
Harrison Salisbury - Journalist
Brian Keith - Actor
%November 15
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1777 - The Articles of Confederation were adopted.
1806 - The first college magazine, the "Literary Cabinet" was published.
1948 - The first American-built electric locomotive with a gas turbine was tested by the General Electric and American Locomotive companies at Erie, Pennsylvania.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 15:
Ed Asner - Actor
Petula Clark - British singer
Georgie O'Keefe - Painter
Joseph Wapner - Judge, war hero, TV personality
Sam Waterston - Actor
Andrew Marvell - Metaphysical poet
%November 16
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1907 - Oklahoma became the 46th state admitted to the Union.
1933 - Diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. were established by President Roosevelt.
1965 - The announcement of plans for Walt Disney World were first made public.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 16:
Dwight Gooden - Baseball pitcher
Mary Margaret McBride - Broadcast journalist
Burgess Meredith - Actor
George S. Kauffman - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Antonio Gades - Dancer
Elizabeth Brenner Drew - Journalist, writer
%November 17
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1800 - The first session of the United States Congress took place.
1851 - The postage stamps portraying the American eagle were first issued.
1969 - The first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. opened in Helsinki, Finland.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 17:
Lee Strasberg - Actor, director, founder New York Actor's Studio
Fredi Girardet - Swiss chef
Soichiro Honda - Japanese industrialist
Martin Scorcese - Film director
Rock Hudson - Actor
Tom Seaver - Baseball pitcher
%November 18
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1803 - The first sheet copper produced in the U.S. was manufactured in Boston, Massachusetts.
1960 - Chrysler Corporation announced discontinuance of the De Soto automobile that had been manufactured by the company since 1928.
1971 - A bill outlawing hunting from airplanes was signed by President Nixon.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 18:
Alan Shepard - Astronaut, first American in space
George Gallup - Public opinion analyst
Johnny Mercer - Lyricist, singer
Warren Moon - Football quarterback
Kevin Nealon - Comedian
Linda Evans - Actress
%November 19
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
1872 - The adding machine that printed totals and subtotals was patented.
1969 - Charles Conrad Jr. and A.L. Bean became the first American astronauts to remain one day on the moon.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 19:
Ted Turner - Media mogul
Calvin Klein - Clothing designer
Dick Cavett - TV talk show host
Meg Ryan - Actress
Roy Campanella - Baseball catcher
Larry King - CNN TV talk show host
%November 20
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1919 - The first municipal airport in the U.S., in Tuscon, Arizona, was opened.
1925 - The first photograph from an airplane at night was taken in Rochester, New York.
1967 - The U.S. population reached 200 million, despite the lowest yearly birthrate in history.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 20:
Alistair Cooke - British journalist, TV host
Duane Allman - Rock guitarist
Bo Derek - Actress
Dick Smothers - Comedian
Barbara Hendricks - Opera soprano
Maiya Plisetskaya - Russian ballet dancer
%November 21
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state of the Union.
1941 - Ethel Leta Juanita Spinelli, convicted slayer of a member of her own gang, became the first woman executed in California in San QuentinÆs gas chamber.
1980 - TelevisionÆs evening soap "Dallas" ran its "Who Shot J.R.?" episode, seen by more viewers than any other television program in history with more than half the nationÆs audience watching.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 21:
James de Priest - Conductor
Phoebe Omlie - Aviator, stunt pilot
Marlo Thomas - Actress
Aleanore Powell - Dancer
Stan Musial - Baseball outfielder-first baseman
Larry Mahan - Rodeo champion
%November 22
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1906 - SOS radio distress signal was adopted.
1930 - For the first time, a football game played in the United States was broadcast in England.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president at Love Air Field in Dallas. That same afternoon, Dallas police captured Lee Harvey Oswald, a suspect in the assassination.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 22:
Billie Jean King - Tennis champion
Rodney Dangerfield - Comedian, actor
Wiley Post - Aviator
John Field - British ballet dancer, Royal Ballet director
Boris Becker - Tennis champion, youngest Wimbledon winner
Jamie Lee Curtis - Actress
%November 23
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1835 - A machine to manufacture horseshoes was patented by Henry Burden.
1876 - The intercollegiate football association was formed.
1919 - The first play-by-play football game was broadcast in the U.S.
Valdemar Poulson - Danish inventor of tape recorder
Edward Rutledge - Declaration of Independence signer
Otis Chandler - Los Angeles Times publisher
%November 24
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1874 - Barbed wire was patented.
1896 - The first absentee voting law was enacted in Vermont.
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby while in custody of the Dallas police.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 24:
Scott Joplin - Greatest ragtime composer, pianist
Oscar Robertson - Basketball guard
Geraldine Fitzgerald - Actress
Junipero Serra - Spanish California missionary
Marlin Fitzwater - Bush press secretary
William F. Buckley - Publisher, syndicated columnist, TV host
%November 25
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1912 - The American College of Surgeons was incorporated.
1920 - The first broadcast of a collegiate football game was aired.
1984 - William Schroeder of Jasper, Indiana, received the second artificial heart transplant, performed at Humana Heart Institute International in Louisville, Kentucky.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 25:
Andrew Carnegie - Industrialist, founded U.S. Steel Corporation
Tina Turner - Singer, entertainer
Joe DiMaggio - Baseball center fielder
Carl Friedrich Benz - Automobile inventor, engineer
Joe Gibbs - Football coach
Ricardo Montalban - Actor
%November 26
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1716 - The lion was first exhibited in Boston, Massachusetts.
1789 - Thanksgiving Day was celebrated for the first time as a national holiday.
1832 - The first streetcar in the world was put into operation by the New York & Harlem Railroad in New York City.
1839 - The American Statistical Association was organized.
1960 - Gordon Howe became the first professional hockey player to reach a score of more than 1,000 points in a regular season.
1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot to death in City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 27:
Jimi Hendrix - Rock, blues electric guitar innovator, singer, songwriter
Bruce Lee - Martial arts master, actor
Buffalo Bob Smith - TV show presenter
Kimberly Glagow - Ballerina
Caroline Kennedy - JFK and Jackie's daughter
Anders Celsius - Swedish astronomer, temperature scale inventor
%November 28
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1895 - The first gasoline-powered automobile race was held.
1922 - Skywriting was first demonstrated.
1964 - Mariner 4 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, to transmit close-up TV pictures of Mars.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 28:
Paul Shaffer - Keyboardist, bandleader
Paul Warfield - Football wide receiver
Gary Hart - U.S. senator
Randy Newman - Satiric songwriter, singer, pianist
Michael Ritchie - Film director
Alberto Moravia - Italian novelist
%November 29
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1890 - The first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point, New York.
1929 - The first flight over the South Pole was completed by Lt. Commander Richard E. Byrd.
1933 - The first state liquor store was authorized in Pennsylvania.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 29:
Louisa Mae Alcott - Novelist
Berry Gordy - Songwriter, record producer, Motown founder
James Rosenquist - Pop art painter
John Mayall - Blues singer, composer
Gary Schandling - Comedian
%November 30
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1875 - The oat-crushing machine was patented.
1887 - The first softball game, also known as an indoor baseball game, was played
1993 - President Clinton signed the Brady Bill into law, providing for a 5-day waiting period and establishing a national computer network as a way to check the backgrounds of gun buyers.
OTHERS BORN ON NOVEMBER 30:
Winston Churchill - British prime minister
Mark Twain - Humorist, writer
Bill Walsh - Football coach
Georgette Robinson - British Secret Service
Bo Jackson - Baseball outfielder, football running back
Dick Clark - American Bandstand host
%December 1
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1941 - The United States Civil Air Patrol was organized.
1958 - "Flower Drum Song" by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the novel by C.Y. Lee, opened at the St. James Theater in New York City.
1973 - Jack Nicklaus won the Disney World Open, becoming the first professional golfer to hit a career total of $2,000,000.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 1:
Mary Martin - Actress, singer, original stage Peter Pan
Bette Midler - Singer, actress, comedienne
Dianne Lennon - Singer, Lennon Sisters
Lee Trevino - Golf champion
Woody Allen - Comedian, actor, director
Eric Rohmer - French film director
%December 2
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1867 - Charles Dickens gave his first reading in a theater in New York City.
1823 - What came to be called the Monroe Doctrine was stated by President James Monroe.
1969 - The Boeing 747 made its first public flight from Seattle to New York City.
1982 - The first successful artificial heart transplant was completed at the University of Utah Medical Center.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 2:
Monica Seles - Tennis champion
Charles Ringling - Circus owner
Roberto Capucci - Italian fashion designer
Julie Harris - Actress
Jean Troisgros - French chef
Bess Furman - Journalist
%December 3
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1818 - Illinois became the 21st state admitted to Union.
1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected 7th president of the U.S.
1979 - A rock concert disaster took the lives of 11 youths who were trampled to death as fans were scrambling to get seats at a concert by The Who at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 3:
Katarina Witt - German figure skater
Bobby Allison - Auto racer
John Backus - Computer scientist
Nicola Amati - Italian violin maker
Andy Williams - Singer
Hallie Burnett - Novelist
%December 4
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1816 - James Monroe was elected president of the United States.
1844 - James K. Polk was elected president of the United States.
1971 - General Motors recalled approx. 6,700,000 vehicles to secure engines against motor mount failure, in the largest voluntary safety recall in auto industry history.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 4:
Wassily Kandisky - Russian painter, founder of modern art
Lillian Russell - Actress
Jeff Bridges - Actor
Lew Jenkins - World lightweight champion boxer
Jim Hall - Jazz guitarist
Aron Siskind - Photographer
%December 5
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1776 - The Phi Beta Kappa fraternity was founded at the College of William and Mary.
1792 - George Washington was reelected president of the United States
1804 - Thomas Jefferson was reelected president of the United States.
1832 - Andrew Jackson was reelected president of the United States.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 5:
Walt Disney - Animator, producer, entertainment empire builder
Little Richard - Singer, entertainer
Otto Preminger - Director
Phillip K. Wrigley - Gum manufacturer, owner of Chicago Cubs
Jim Plunkett - Football quarterback
Robert Hand - Astrologer
%December 6
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1790 - Philadelphia became the nation's capital when Congress opened its legislative session there.
1820 - James Monroe was reelected president of the United States.
1877 - Thomas Edison completed his phonograph.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 6:
Don King - Boxing promoter
Alfred Eisenstaedt - Photojournalist
Dave Brubeck - Jazz pianist, composer
Joyce Kilmer - Poet
Charles Martin Hall - Chemist, discovered method of extracting aluminum
Otto Graham - Football quarterback
%December 7
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution.
1808 - James Madison was elected president of the United States.
1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected president of the United States.
1941 - The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 7:
Johnny Bench - Baseball catcher
Richard W. Sears - Mail-order merchant, Sears-Roebuck
Larry Bird - Basketball forward
Ellen Burstyn - Actress
A.J. Antoon - Theater director
Eli Wallach - Actor
%December 8
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1931 - The coaxial cable was patented.
1941 - A declaration of war against Japan was passed by Congress.
1980 - John Lennon was shot and killed outside his apartment building in New York City.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 8:
Sammy Davis, Jr. - Entertainer, singer, dancer, comedian, actor
Jim Morrison - Singer, songwriter
James Galway - Irish flutist
Richard Fleischer - Film director
Adele Simpson - Fashion designer
Flip Wilson - Comedian, actor
%December 9
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1845 - The first silver wire suture was used.
1869 - The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was founded.
1968 - Linda Byrd Johnson, the older daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, was married to Marine Captain Charles Robb in a ceremony at the White House.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 9:
Kirk Douglas - Actor, producer
Dick Butkus - Football middle-linebacker
Joan Aarmatrading - Singer
Tom Kite - Golfer
Bill Hartack - Jockey
Redd Foxx - Comedian, actor
%December 10
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1817 - Mississippi was admitted into the Union as the 20th state.
1898 - The treaty ending the Spanish-American War was signed in Paris.
1915 - The millionth Model T rolled off the Ford auto assembly line in Detroit, Michigan.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 10:
Emily Dickinson - Poet
Morton Gould - Composer, ASCAP president
Mahara Ji - Indian spiritual teacher
Chet Huntley - TV journalist
Susan Dey - Actress
Edith Randall - Astrologer
%December 11
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1816 - Indiana was admitted into the Union as the 19th state.
1941 - Germany and Italy declared war against the United States, and Congress adopted a resolution recognizing a state of war.
1984 - Discovery of 7,000-year-old human skulls with brains almost entirely intact, found buried in peat at the bottom of a lake, was reported by archeologists in Florida.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 11:
Christine Onassis - Heir, business executive, one of world's wealthiest women
Gilbert Roland - Actor
Alfred de Musset - French poet, novelist, playwright
McCoy Tyner - Jazz pianist, composer
Carlo Ponti - Italian film producer
Big Mama Thornton - Blues singer
%December 12
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1787 - Pennsylvania ratified the Constitution and became the second state of the Union.
1925 - The first motel, the Motel Inn, opened in San Luis Obispo, California.
1982 - The largest cash robbery in U.S. history happened when thieves in New York City made off with $9,800,000 from an armored truck company.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 12:
Frank Sinatra - Singer, songwriter, actor
Dionne Warwick - Singer
Tracy Austin - Tennis player, youngest player to win U.S. Open
Bob Pettit - Basketball forward
Cai Qi Jiao - Chinese poet
Bob Barker - Game show host
%December 13
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1816 - The first savings bank in the U.S. was organized in Boston.
1920 - A.A. Michelson became the first astronomer to measure the size of a fixed star.
1978 - The Susan B. Anthony coin was issued.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 13:
Dick Van Dyke - Actor, singer, dancer
Hugo Fonk - San Francisco Trans-America building architect
Ferguson Jenkins - Baseball pitcher
Kenneth Patchen - Poet
Sonny Greer - Jazz drummer
Ross MacDonald - Writer
%December 14
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1774 - The first military encounter of the American Revolution happened.
1799 - George Washington died at the age of 67 and was buried on his estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia.
1819 - Alabama was admitted into the Union as the 22nd state.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 14:
Stan Smith - Tennis champion
Patty Duke - Actress
Rosalyn Tureck - Pianist
Stanley Crouch - Poet
Shirley Jackson - Short-story writer
Don Hewitt - TV news producer, creator of "60 Minutes"
%December 15
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1854 - The first street cleaning machine was used in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1965 - Gemini 6, piloted by Captain Walter Schirra and Major Thomas Stafford, was launched.
1986 - Carnegie Hall in New York City reopened, after being closed for seven months for a $50,000,000 remodeling, with a gala concert featuring many widely known musicians.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 15:
Tim Conway - Comedian, actor
Alexander A. Eiffel - Builder of Eiffel Tower
Alan Freed - Disc jockey, promoter
Don Johnson - Actor
Betty Smith - Novelist
Danny Richmond - Jazz drummer
%December 16
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1773 - The Boston Tea Party occurred.
1852 - The first patent for a process of shaping brass into bowls was issued to Hiram Hayden.
1903 - The Majestic Theater in New York City employed the first female ushers.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 16:
Jane Austen - Novelist
Arthur C. Clarke - Science-fiction writer, screenplay writer
Lesley Stahl - TV journalist, anchor
Joe Farrell - Jazz tenor saxophonist
James M. McCracken - Opera singer
Elizabeth Hawes - Fashion designer
%December 17
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1895 - The Anti-Saloon League of America was formed.
1933 - The National Football League (NFL) held their first championship playoff, with the Chicago Bears defeating the New York Giants.
1969 - Singer Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki, he in his mid-40s and she 17, were wed in a ceremony on Johnny CarsonÆs Tonite TV show.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 17:
Arthur Fiedler - Boston Pops conductor
William Lyon Mackenzie King - Canadian prime minister
Jacob Landau - Painter
Allan Cox - Geophysicist
Walter Booker - Jazz bassist
Paul Butterfield - Blues musician, bandleader
%December 18
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1787 - New Jersey ratified the Constitution and became the third state of the Union.
1918 - The first regular airmail service between New York and Chicago began.
1936 - The first giant panda arrived in San Francisco, California.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 18:
Steven Spielberg - Film director, producer
Ty Cobb - Baseball outfielder
Keith Richards - British guitarist, songwriter, singer, "Rolling Stones"
Betty Grable - Actress
Ramsey Clark - Attorney general
Joseph Grimaldi - British clown
%December 19
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1732 - Poor Richard's Almanac was first published by Benjamin Franklin.
1959 - The last Civil War veteran, Walter Williams, died at the age of 117, in Houston, Texas.
1985 - Mary Lund of Kensington, Minnesota, was the first woman to receive an artificial heart, in order to keep her alive until a human donor could be found.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 19:
Cicely Tyson - Actress
Al Kaline - Baseball player
David Suskind - TV, film producer
Richard Leakey - Anthropologist
Bobby Layne - Football quarterback
Leonid Brezhnev - Soviet premier
%December 20
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1928 - The Ethel Barrymore Theatre opened in New York City.
1951 - The first atomic-powered generator began producing electricity at the U.S. Reactor Testing Station in Idaho.
1984 - Bell Laboratories announced the development of the megabit memory chip which was able to store more than 1,000,000 bits of electronic data.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 20:
Kiefer Sutherland - Actor
George Roy Hill - Director, actor, writer
Irene Dunne - Actress
Kim Young Sam - South Korean president
Hortense Calisher - Short-story writer, novelist
Bob Hayes - Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter
%December 21
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1849 - The first ice skating club was formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1942 - Nevada divorces were ruled valid in all states by the Supreme Court.
1970 - Reduction of the voting age in national elections to 18 years was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 21:
Jane Fonda - Actress, political activist
Frank Zappa - Songwriter, composer, singer
Phil Donahue - TV talk-show host
Chris Everett - Tennis champion
Andras Schiff - Pianist
Michael Tilson Thomas - Conductor
%December 22
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1956 - The first gorilla born in captivity was born at the Columbus Zoo, Ohio.
1968 - President-elect Richard NixonÆs younger daughter, Julie, was married to Dwight David Eisenhower II, grandson of the former president.
1984 - The Federal Trade Commission approved a joint U.S.-Japanese auto venture by General Motors and Toyota of Japan, with the new plant to be located in Fremont, California.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 22:
Steve Carlton - Baseball pitcher
Maurice Gibb - Singer, songwriter, "Bee Gees", twin of Robin
Robin Gibb - Singer, songwriter, "Bee Gees"
Giacomo Puccini - Italian opera composer
Dame Peggy Ashcroft - British actress
Diane Sawyer - TV journalist
%December 23
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1913 - The Federal Reserve Act was approved.
1970 - The north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City was topped out at 1350 feet, making it the tallest building in the world, 100 feet taller than the Empire State Building.
1986 - The first nonstop flight around the world without refueling was completed when the experimental airplane Voyager landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, after a journey of 25,012 miles.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 23:
John Jay - First Supreme Court chief justice
Jose Greco - Choreographer, flamenco dancer
James B. Duke - Founder American Tobacco Company
Bob Kurland - Basketball center
Susan Lucci - Actress
Dick Weber - Bowler
%December 24
BIRTHDAY FACTS FUN
ON THIS DAY:
1851 - A fire at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroyed two-thirds of its collection.
1906 - The first known radio broadcast of voice and music was made by Reginald Fessenden.
1943 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named Supreme Commander of Allied forces for the invasion of Europe.
OTHERS BORN ON DECEMBER 24:
Robert Joffrey - Ballet company founder, choreographer
Howard R. Hughes - Billionaire recluse, industrialist, aviator, film producer
